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Gundam Wing Episode 13 *Regretful Decisions* 11:39am
"I, I can't believe I was such a fool."
"Quatre, don't blame yourself." Sa Da Ool and a bunch of Maganacs crowd around a table to listening in.
"How can I not?" Quatre says frustrated and miserable. ". I let the guys down. They were counting on me to crack the codes and all I was good for was to get it stolen."
"Don't worry Master Quatre we'll help you find her and get the laptop back." Abdul says patting him on the shoulder.
Just then Auda walks in. "No one's seen anyone leave the village that matched her description so most likely she's still here." Quatre sighs as he stands up. Abdul and Auda watch as he sadly leaves the room.
*****
Wulan watches Quatre exit the building miserable. I'm sorry Quatre. She closes the shutters of the little attic window that over saw his building. Turning away from the window, she leans on the wall next to it. She curls up in a ball hugging the laptop still remembering Quatre's tender nuzzle and powerful kisses. You did the right thing. She gets up forcing the memory to the side, but at the same time keeping it close.
She snatches the backpack in the center taking out clothes to change in. After changing, she puts her hair in an unbraided ponytail then changes the shape of her eyes with make up to look Egyptian. Time to make sure I've cleaned up all the trash I accidentally brought with me.
*****
A green eyed, black hair Chinese man enters the pool area. He lies in a lawn chair and begins soaking up the sun's rays. He puts on sunglasses to block out the sunlight. Out of nowhere someone's shadow blocks out the sun.
Annoyed he takes off his glasses only to look into the same green eyes. "Brother!" He sits up in surprise. "How have you been?"
"Don't play innocent! What do you want, Li?"
"Must you always suspect me of doing something wrong to have to go on vacation?" Li's twin looks at him more now with suspicion. "This is a real vacation. I give you my word; ask grandfather if you don't believe me. He suggested it."
"Let me guess, you want to switch places again." He looks at Li this time with more of an understanding, this time.
"Not this time." Pip's answer shocks Li.
"Why not?"
"Last time we switched you nearly raped a girl, remember. Wufei hasn't looked at me the same since. We were good friends." There was a long pause as Pip sat down next to his brother.
"Fine, I understand. You know I hate being the oldest because I have to take up the family business. You, on the other hand, get to be what ever you want. What are you now, a police chief?"
"Anyway even if we do change places, grandfather would figure us out. He's the only one who can tell us apart." Pip stands up and looks at his brother a moment. "Brother something doesn't' make sense to me. Why are you after Mr. Quatre Winner?"
"Why am I after Mr. Winner, you ask." Li laughs making his brother cringe a bit. Pip had seen this side of his brother before and knew he won't stop until he gets what he wants. "Remember little brother, Mr. Winner is Arabic. The business goes to the first born son. He has no brother. With him gone, we can take control of the satellites easily."
*****
Why would she steal it? Quatre thinks to himself as he walks through the village. And. what would she use it for? He tries to figure it out, but something seemed to be blocking it. Why can't I figure it out? Fox is somewhere here, I just know it. Something that. Heero said.
~~~~~Flash~~~~~
"Shimi and Fox are the only one's left in there group."
~~~~~Flash~~~~~
I know that means something, but what does it mean? He sighs and looks up in the sky then he hears a small ringing in his left ear. He reaches for his ear when something catches his eye, someone familiar. It couldn't be could it? He runs off in the direction of the person.
Quatre soon stops at the side of the building which the person he followed was talking to two men who were on the opposite building. Somehow, he manages to climb the building. He feels his heart pounding as he watches her. She wore a similar cowgirl outfit the day she came. It's her.
~~~~~Flash~~~~~
A look of concern crossed the young girl's face. She removed her cowgirl hat and laid it on the table beside Quatre. "Are you sure you want this suit, Mr. Winner, how about this one?" She switched to a different to a different gundam model on her laptop.
"Does it have the same power?"
"No, but-"
"Then I want the gundam I picked." Quatre was completely unreadable. He seemed to be half listening.
"I know your father's death was a shock. Right now, you're in no condition to pilot anything especially Wing Zero. That gundam's way too powerful. You won't be-"
"That's what I want, Sophia." His no feeling eyes turn glassy. He balls up his fists. "Can you please. just, just do this for me, please?" Tears stream down his face. Sophia sits in his lap so that they were face to face her knees rest on the seat of the chair. She wipes the tears from his face and hugs him. He hugs back.
"Mr. Winner. I'll make both and you can take Desert Storm and I'll take Wing Zero. You won't be able to handle the Zero System, so trust me ok."
"Maybe, maybe you're right."
~~~~~Flash~~~~~
Quatre lets out a breath he forgot he was holding. But, how did she survive?
*****
"Just come quietly and maybe Chris won't hurt the boy too much" George says with a devious smile as Chris came out holding a familiar dark haired little boy in a choke hold.
She pushes back the rage that started to build to build inside her. "Let Fahd go! This is between you and me! I want no innocence involved in this!"
"Then just come over here and Chris will leave something to pick up." Chris takes a switch blade out of his pocket.
The little boy gasps as the cold metal touches his neck. His eyes double in side. "Wulan!"
Instead of waiting to see what was going to happen next, she reaches for her belt. She throws something that shines in the light as it splits. Fahd closes his eyes and cringes hearing the metal slice overhead. The blade falls away from his neck as well as Chris's grip on him. Chris falls on top of Fahd almost smothering him.
After pulling himself out from under the large man, he scoots slowly away from George who was angrily removing a ninja star from his arm. Fahd's hand hits something. He looks down to see Chris's staring back at him. He screams unable to take his eyes off the severed head. His screams stop however, when George jerks him up by his shirt like a cat picks up a kitten. "Let him go or do you want to suffer a similar fate as your friend?"
"I'm not scared of you BITCH. You're just lucky you're on a separate building!" George didn't get a chance to move before a ninja star went thorough his heart. He goes down as three Maganacs make it to help the terrified little boy. She catches the two remaining flying stainless steal stars and carefully puts them back on her belt. At least he'll be safe now. She turns, seeing Quatre on the other side of the building she stands almost frozen. Quatre.
~~~~~Flash~~~~~
Sophia ran across the platform and skidded to a stop in front of Desert Storm. Her heart jumped when Wing Zero came to life. "Mr. Winner that too dan-" the engines of Zero drown her out as it zooms forward. "Quatre, you won't be able to control it! COME BACK!!... QUATRE!! Darn it ." She gets angry as she watches him leave. "DAMN YOU QUATRE!!!! COME BACK!"
As though he heard her, he does a U- turn. Thank God, he's come back to his senses. To her dismay he stops halfway to the entrance from the hanger.
"Sorry Sophia, but I have to do this on my own." Her eyes grow wide when he raised the buster gun at her and fired. She felt the immense heat of the blast when it passed a ways overhead.
She falls to her knees completely shaken. She turned to see a giant hole in her in the center of her gundam. She turned back to him furious but rational. "Quatre listen to me! The Zero System causes-" A small explosion makes her flinch. She turned back at to her gundam and soon realized the danger she was in. Desert Storm self-destructed.
~~~~~Flash~~~~~
"You stole Wing Zero from me, Quatre." She gazes at him in shock.
"You remember me, Sophia." His eyes start to water. "I'm so happy to see that you're alive and well." he starts to run to her.
I will never show kindness to anyone, again. That's what my weakness was; I know that now. "No more. You're too weak!" Sophia pulls out a gun and fires. As the bullet grazes the tip of his ear, there's a small explosion that jerks him sideways.
"AH!" Quatre clutches his left ear and everything starts to spin. His vision starts to go out, but he looks up in time to see Sophia jumps off the other side of the building with some kind of yellow board in hand. He could hear Rashid and the others calling his name with great concern. When he feels himself slip, he tried in vain to get a grip on something.
*****
Sophia lands on her hover-board no problem, but the Maganacs head her surrounded at the moment. She was ready to fight until she saw their looks of worry and there shouts. She looks up in horror. Her heart races seeing Quatre fall off the building and before she knew it she'd pushed Abdul and Aladdin. She catches him in her arms. Not stopping, she zips past Quatre's guards continuing out of the village.
*****
Trowa and Shimi sit watching Duo and Niko play Super Smash Brother's Melee. Duo chose Captain Falcon and Niko Zelda. Playing with no items, they're even and time was almost up. Shimi takes her eyes off the action. She looks at Trowa whose deep in thought rather then watching. Maybe Sophia's right about them.
~~~~~~Flash~~~~~
"You might trust them, but they don't trust people as easily as you. You're a girl Shimi. No matter what they say, it's still a man's world. We'll always have to prove ourselves no matter what. always." Sophia sat up in bed then looked at Shimi a moment. She sighed at Shimi when she saw her partner was upset with what was said to her.
"I wish you wouldn't put them down so easily Sophia." She sat next to Sophia almost pleading.
"Sorry. I'm just tired of proving myself to people.; anyway, we don't have time for it. We need a few weeks of training before we start again."
"Then why don't we add them to the training?"
"All they will try to do is get information from us and take the job as though it was there own. They'll just treat us like children. I've had it happen before, but don't blame them. It's just there nature. You're good at acting Shimi, just put on one of your acts."
~~~~~Flash~~~~~
Maybe I should, it would give me something to do, after all. Shimi takes a deep breath and slowly lets it out. "Dooo you have a girlfriend, Trowa?"
"." Trowa glances at Shimi then sits up staring on the couch. She had brought him out of his thoughts. Something about Fox and Sophia didn't add up. For some reason, he couldn't put his finger on it. It was like someone up a blockade and he had trouble getting over it. "Hum?"
"Girlfriend."
"No"
Yes!! Ok, time to work your charm. She moves closer to him. "Do you consider yourself a good kisser, Trowa?" He didn't know what to say. Ho one has ever asked him such a question in his life. He's in complete shock, but he doesn't show it. Something in her eyes told him she already knew, but he didn't know how. It felt like they could read each other's thoughts by just looking at each other. There was something abnormal about her eyes. At the same time, they were extremely beautiful something he never really noticed before. Suddenly, he felt uneasy which was very new for him.
"Don't you ever smile, Trowa, just a little?" Shimi changes to a relaxed sexy voice as she moves closer. "Come on, I know you can talk." He pretends to have more of an interest in what Niko and Duo were doing. Like a cat, she climbs on top of him until they were face to face. "Let's just see how good a kisser you really are, Trowa."
His heart pounds faster then he had ever felt it pound before. He pushes her away as her stands up. This only makes Shimi more ravenous. She wraps her arms around his neck and kisses him after flattening her body on his.
His eyes grow a bit in surprise then he finally manages to get lose of her grip and staggers to his feet beside the couch. Another smile forms on her face. Trowa could feel himself blushing then realizes Heero had walked in on the whole thing. Shimi walks up to him again and starts to play with the lock of hair that draped over his both eyes from embarrassment. He takes a step back onto the wall.
"I knew you were a good kisser, Trowa." Her voice came out as soft as butter. She turns away from him and exits the room.
*****
She finally stops at the oasis that she and Quatre had met so often before. Laying him under a tree closest to the water, she takes out a handkerchief then soaks it in the water. Walking back, she wipes his face then stops the tip of his ear from bleeding. He'll be safe here until they find him. She watches his chest rise and descends slowly. Why don't I want to leave? ... He's going to wake up soon anyway. I better go.
She intertwines her finger of her left hand with his right instead of leaving. She looks at then noticing how slightly bigger and smoother his hands were to hers. Satisfied she lets go of his hand and takes a gun from her pocket. This way is best I believe. She takes the gun and put it to her head. Quatre tackles her as she pulls the trigger.
There's a moment of silence. Sophia's eyes focus on Quatre's worried eyes. She could feel blood drip down her forehead. Only a flesh wound. Sophia pushes him off. Upon seeing the gun, they both race for it. They both grab the gun at the same time. "LET GO!!"
"Killing yourself isn't the answer, Sophia!"
She manages to snatch it from him, but he grabs her wrist then pins her down. "Why do you care?!"
"Because Wufei and Shimi will be broken hearted if he found out you kill yourself and. so would." He stops himself before he could finish blushing. He lifts her into the sitting position. "So would . I, Sophia."
She looks at him stunned. He pulls her into a hugs. She pulls free again, but this time not as rough. He can't mean it. besides I can't get him involved any more then he already is. Quatre quickly gets up and helps her up. Her face changes to serious. "I have to go." She hands him her gun and walks off.
"Wait" She turns giving one last look at him before running off when he started to follow. He starts to catch up when she disappears. He stops a moment looking in disbelief then continues moving. He soon hits something that sounded like metal. "What's this?"
Just then, he hears a familiar sound. A sound he hadn't heard since the Mariemaia incident, the sound of a mobil suit coming to life. Then, all at once he saw it like someone turning on a light in a dark garage. He stood at the thigh of the gundam. The suit was entirely black only because of the cloak it wore. At the same time the cloak seemed to be part of it like skin or hair would be to a person.
He climbs it when he sees the cockpit's still open. The gundam had sat up and sand continues to fall from it like multiple streams. He makes it to the cockpit as it starts to close. He's surprised to see nothing inside except a ring over head and the platform Sophia's standing on. It felt like walking into a small room.
Sophia sits cross-legged on the platform with her back turned to him. He notices her clothes have changed. It looked like a diver's suit, only deep purple and the neck and shoulders are exposed. On her shoulders is something that looks like blue shoulder pads with two antenna sticking out of each. "Rashid and the others are no doubt worried about you."
"But first tall me why you made gundams in times of peace, Sophia?" the cockpit door closes completely. It becomes black.
"There's no such thing as peace or at least in the way Ms. Relena is trying to achieve, Quatre. There's always some idiot trying to rule it all and Osprey and Black Zoë's no different." Several screens pop up bringing in light. "It's amazing what you can see when you take out the seat of the cockpit. You can even see what's behind you without much problem."
"You still haven't answered my question." Quatre says sternly. She turns around her face showing now.
"If I told you the real reason, you'd think I'm crazy." He looks at her confused. He then sits in front of her.
"I don't care about that. we can help you, but only if you let us." There's a long moment of silence before she continues. She reaches for her book bag in the corner and opens it.
"I have a feeling you guys won't believe me completely until you see it for yourself." She searches through it then takes out a folder. "Here" Quatre takes it, but before he could open it she places her hand on his stopping him. "I want you to open it when I leave because you'll only want to stay longer. Give this to Heero, ok, now go." Both stand up and the cockpit door opens.
"You have to promise you won't kill yourself." She smiles at him then promises. He takes a step outside. He turns to her and smiles. "This gundam's amazing. Next time we meet, I want to know everything about it and how it works. I just hope we don't have to use it."
"First, you scold me about making a gundam and then you compliment me on it." She blushes then gives him a strange look. "You're not normal are you?"
*****
Sophia gives a sigh of relief as she sees her house. Thank God, they didn't move the house. She steps out of the cab after paying the man. She bites her lower lip as the cab drives away. Something tells me I should have walked instead of using a cab.
She walks slowly to the front door. She digs in her pocket for her keys. Great, I can't find my key. She turns and goes to the greenhouse that's attached to the house. When she realizes that the door is also locked she slams her head on the bullet proof glass. Someone really hates me. Taking out a screwdriver she takes the hinges off the door and calmly walks in.
After putting everything back in place, she heads for the back door. The five scientist stand as she enters the kitchen. "Sophia, you're back." S notices she looks a bit down. A look of concern crosses his face.
"And how long did it finally take you to get home?"
Sophia looks wearily at her uncle, but her thoughts were somewhere else. I shouldn't have given Quatre that, but that was the only way to get them off my back. right.
"What's the matter, Sophia?" O walks over to her as she sinks to the floor.
"I can't stay very long." There's a pause as the others are soon all around her. O puts a hand on her shoulder giving her a look of sympathy. "And Shimi. wants to recruit five new people."
"Five new people" He says in surprise.
"Yes and these guys aren't normal. There all a pain in the butt."
"They can't be giving you that much trouble."
"You should know. you're the ones who trained them." Her voice was full of worry instead of anger which she tries to portray.
"One more thing Sophia" Some of the worry escapes her face. She stands up and dusts herself off. "You did bring Shadowschythe with you right." She glances at G.
"He can take care of himself. If he gets curious and moves around and someone finds him, he knows what to do." She walks past him.
"Sophia, I do wish you wouldn't refer to your gundams as though they were people." She turns around looking at each of them annoyed.
"Not this again. Come on H, I'm not crazy. If you would see some of the things they do you'd understand. I did give them AI after all" They all give her strange looks. ".besides a lot of people talk to their cars. I see no difference here."
"Do you need to sit down, sweet heart?" J says. They all start to say words of concern. This makes her angry.
"CUT IT OUT!!! I'M NOT CRAZY!!!" her sudden outburst makes them stop. Her eyes flicker blue a moment then return to normal. She suddenly holds her head. "I'm, I'm sorry. I'm having trouble controlling an anger problem I've seemed to have inherited over this short period of time." She turns away and heads toward the room she missed. They watch her as she softly closes the door behind her.
"Something's bothering her." S starts for her door and knocks not going in. "Sophia, are you hungry? We can get you something and we can talk." There's a long pause. He knocks on the door again. The others soon meet at the door with S.
There's the sound of exploding glass instead of the reply he wanted. Startled he opens the door quickly as more glass erupts into shards and rain down to the floor. The others follow him inside in time to see the mirror shatter. Sophia was waving around an ax like a baseball bat smashing things. Anything that was glass in the room was or was on the verge of being broken.
"Sophia stops; what are you doing?" at first she didn't seem to hear her uncle's pleading. She stops and looks at him as though she'd just saw him for the first time in her life. Her eyes are an angrily blazing blue.
After a moment, her face changes from anger to sorrow. She falls to her knees G takes the ax from her then J shakes her a bit. "Sophia what's wrong with you. Did something happen to you?"
She burst into tears startling them and worrying them more. They circle her like a blanket. Her uncle sits behind her. "Li. he killed them all. He's the leader of Osprey."
They all finally understand and recall that Li was recruited by Sophia when she was younger as a trainee. That's when a wave of death began to infect the team members one by one. Soon after however Li left the team after he was adopted saying he wanted a regular life. He had the responsibility to take on the family business.
O pulls her into a hug. "I know what your thinking and it's not your fault."
"How can you say that? I let him come in and destroy everything he got his grubby little hands on." She closes her eyes. Letting out a gasp she looks to the floor. "I feel like I don't know who I am anymore." She whispers in a small, harsh, airy voice. "I've probably led Quatre and the others into a death trap giving them the location of one of Osprey's bases."
"You sent them on a mission?" H says to her confounded. Sophia shakes her head you yes. Her bangs hide her eyes. "And you feel guilty about that, Sophia."
"Yes. I do." But I don't know why. I promised myself I wouldn't care anymore. There's a long pause. They scoot closer to Sophia.
"If you sent them on a mission, why won't you let them join?" S gives her a curious look. The one that meant he wanted a well thought out explanation and it had to be good.
"I don't want anymore blood then what has to be shed in this behind the screens war. I need no more blood on my hands, that's why I left Shimi with them." She pulls free from her uncle and warily stands. She looks up at S's face to catch his impression. He didn't give a clear appearance of what he was thinking. "Might as well finish Desert Storm"
"I bet you're tired after your long trip ." J helps her to her bed. "Get some rest, Sophia, and then you can finish the work that needs to be done on your gundams."
"I was just waving around an ax like a mad woman wasn't I?"
"Yes, I believe it's safe to say that" H says to her as the other three scientists start to clean up the glass. Sophia rests her head on her pillow.
"Maybe I have gone a little crazy, I guess." She scoffs a little as H sits on the bed next to her.
Gundam Wing Episode 13 *Regretful Decisions* 11:39am
"I, I can't believe I was such a fool."
"Quatre, don't blame yourself." Sa Da Ool and a bunch of Maganacs crowd around a table to listening in.
"How can I not?" Quatre says frustrated and miserable. ". I let the guys down. They were counting on me to crack the codes and all I was good for was to get it stolen."
"Don't worry Master Quatre we'll help you find her and get the laptop back." Abdul says patting him on the shoulder.
Just then Auda walks in. "No one's seen anyone leave the village that matched her description so most likely she's still here." Quatre sighs as he stands up. Abdul and Auda watch as he sadly leaves the room.
*****
Wulan watches Quatre exit the building miserable. I'm sorry Quatre. She closes the shutters of the little attic window that over saw his building. Turning away from the window, she leans on the wall next to it. She curls up in a ball hugging the laptop still remembering Quatre's tender nuzzle and powerful kisses. You did the right thing. She gets up forcing the memory to the side, but at the same time keeping it close.
She snatches the backpack in the center taking out clothes to change in. After changing, she puts her hair in an unbraided ponytail then changes the shape of her eyes with make up to look Egyptian. Time to make sure I've cleaned up all the trash I accidentally brought with me.
*****
A green eyed, black hair Chinese man enters the pool area. He lies in a lawn chair and begins soaking up the sun's rays. He puts on sunglasses to block out the sunlight. Out of nowhere someone's shadow blocks out the sun.
Annoyed he takes off his glasses only to look into the same green eyes. "Brother!" He sits up in surprise. "How have you been?"
"Don't play innocent! What do you want, Li?"
"Must you always suspect me of doing something wrong to have to go on vacation?" Li's twin looks at him more now with suspicion. "This is a real vacation. I give you my word; ask grandfather if you don't believe me. He suggested it."
"Let me guess, you want to switch places again." He looks at Li this time with more of an understanding, this time.
"Not this time." Pip's answer shocks Li.
"Why not?"
"Last time we switched you nearly raped a girl, remember. Wufei hasn't looked at me the same since. We were good friends." There was a long pause as Pip sat down next to his brother.
"Fine, I understand. You know I hate being the oldest because I have to take up the family business. You, on the other hand, get to be what ever you want. What are you now, a police chief?"
"Anyway even if we do change places, grandfather would figure us out. He's the only one who can tell us apart." Pip stands up and looks at his brother a moment. "Brother something doesn't' make sense to me. Why are you after Mr. Quatre Winner?"
"Why am I after Mr. Winner, you ask." Li laughs making his brother cringe a bit. Pip had seen this side of his brother before and knew he won't stop until he gets what he wants. "Remember little brother, Mr. Winner is Arabic. The business goes to the first born son. He has no brother. With him gone, we can take control of the satellites easily."
*****
Why would she steal it? Quatre thinks to himself as he walks through the village. And. what would she use it for? He tries to figure it out, but something seemed to be blocking it. Why can't I figure it out? Fox is somewhere here, I just know it. Something that. Heero said.
~~~~~Flash~~~~~
"Shimi and Fox are the only one's left in there group."
~~~~~Flash~~~~~
I know that means something, but what does it mean? He sighs and looks up in the sky then he hears a small ringing in his left ear. He reaches for his ear when something catches his eye, someone familiar. It couldn't be could it? He runs off in the direction of the person.
Quatre soon stops at the side of the building which the person he followed was talking to two men who were on the opposite building. Somehow, he manages to climb the building. He feels his heart pounding as he watches her. She wore a similar cowgirl outfit the day she came. It's her.
~~~~~Flash~~~~~
A look of concern crossed the young girl's face. She removed her cowgirl hat and laid it on the table beside Quatre. "Are you sure you want this suit, Mr. Winner, how about this one?" She switched to a different to a different gundam model on her laptop.
"Does it have the same power?"
"No, but-"
"Then I want the gundam I picked." Quatre was completely unreadable. He seemed to be half listening.
"I know your father's death was a shock. Right now, you're in no condition to pilot anything especially Wing Zero. That gundam's way too powerful. You won't be-"
"That's what I want, Sophia." His no feeling eyes turn glassy. He balls up his fists. "Can you please. just, just do this for me, please?" Tears stream down his face. Sophia sits in his lap so that they were face to face her knees rest on the seat of the chair. She wipes the tears from his face and hugs him. He hugs back.
"Mr. Winner. I'll make both and you can take Desert Storm and I'll take Wing Zero. You won't be able to handle the Zero System, so trust me ok."
"Maybe, maybe you're right."
~~~~~Flash~~~~~
Quatre lets out a breath he forgot he was holding. But, how did she survive?
*****
"Just come quietly and maybe Chris won't hurt the boy too much" George says with a devious smile as Chris came out holding a familiar dark haired little boy in a choke hold.
She pushes back the rage that started to build to build inside her. "Let Fahd go! This is between you and me! I want no innocence involved in this!"
"Then just come over here and Chris will leave something to pick up." Chris takes a switch blade out of his pocket.
The little boy gasps as the cold metal touches his neck. His eyes double in side. "Wulan!"
Instead of waiting to see what was going to happen next, she reaches for her belt. She throws something that shines in the light as it splits. Fahd closes his eyes and cringes hearing the metal slice overhead. The blade falls away from his neck as well as Chris's grip on him. Chris falls on top of Fahd almost smothering him.
After pulling himself out from under the large man, he scoots slowly away from George who was angrily removing a ninja star from his arm. Fahd's hand hits something. He looks down to see Chris's staring back at him. He screams unable to take his eyes off the severed head. His screams stop however, when George jerks him up by his shirt like a cat picks up a kitten. "Let him go or do you want to suffer a similar fate as your friend?"
"I'm not scared of you BITCH. You're just lucky you're on a separate building!" George didn't get a chance to move before a ninja star went thorough his heart. He goes down as three Maganacs make it to help the terrified little boy. She catches the two remaining flying stainless steal stars and carefully puts them back on her belt. At least he'll be safe now. She turns, seeing Quatre on the other side of the building she stands almost frozen. Quatre.
~~~~~Flash~~~~~
Sophia ran across the platform and skidded to a stop in front of Desert Storm. Her heart jumped when Wing Zero came to life. "Mr. Winner that too dan-" the engines of Zero drown her out as it zooms forward. "Quatre, you won't be able to control it! COME BACK!!... QUATRE!! Darn it ." She gets angry as she watches him leave. "DAMN YOU QUATRE!!!! COME BACK!"
As though he heard her, he does a U- turn. Thank God, he's come back to his senses. To her dismay he stops halfway to the entrance from the hanger.
"Sorry Sophia, but I have to do this on my own." Her eyes grow wide when he raised the buster gun at her and fired. She felt the immense heat of the blast when it passed a ways overhead.
She falls to her knees completely shaken. She turned to see a giant hole in her in the center of her gundam. She turned back to him furious but rational. "Quatre listen to me! The Zero System causes-" A small explosion makes her flinch. She turned back at to her gundam and soon realized the danger she was in. Desert Storm self-destructed.
~~~~~Flash~~~~~
"You stole Wing Zero from me, Quatre." She gazes at him in shock.
"You remember me, Sophia." His eyes start to water. "I'm so happy to see that you're alive and well." he starts to run to her.
I will never show kindness to anyone, again. That's what my weakness was; I know that now. "No more. You're too weak!" Sophia pulls out a gun and fires. As the bullet grazes the tip of his ear, there's a small explosion that jerks him sideways.
"AH!" Quatre clutches his left ear and everything starts to spin. His vision starts to go out, but he looks up in time to see Sophia jumps off the other side of the building with some kind of yellow board in hand. He could hear Rashid and the others calling his name with great concern. When he feels himself slip, he tried in vain to get a grip on something.
*****
Sophia lands on her hover-board no problem, but the Maganacs head her surrounded at the moment. She was ready to fight until she saw their looks of worry and there shouts. She looks up in horror. Her heart races seeing Quatre fall off the building and before she knew it she'd pushed Abdul and Aladdin. She catches him in her arms. Not stopping, she zips past Quatre's guards continuing out of the village.
*****
Trowa and Shimi sit watching Duo and Niko play Super Smash Brother's Melee. Duo chose Captain Falcon and Niko Zelda. Playing with no items, they're even and time was almost up. Shimi takes her eyes off the action. She looks at Trowa whose deep in thought rather then watching. Maybe Sophia's right about them.
~~~~~~Flash~~~~~
"You might trust them, but they don't trust people as easily as you. You're a girl Shimi. No matter what they say, it's still a man's world. We'll always have to prove ourselves no matter what. always." Sophia sat up in bed then looked at Shimi a moment. She sighed at Shimi when she saw her partner was upset with what was said to her.
"I wish you wouldn't put them down so easily Sophia." She sat next to Sophia almost pleading.
"Sorry. I'm just tired of proving myself to people.; anyway, we don't have time for it. We need a few weeks of training before we start again."
"Then why don't we add them to the training?"
"All they will try to do is get information from us and take the job as though it was there own. They'll just treat us like children. I've had it happen before, but don't blame them. It's just there nature. You're good at acting Shimi, just put on one of your acts."
~~~~~Flash~~~~~
Maybe I should, it would give me something to do, after all. Shimi takes a deep breath and slowly lets it out. "Dooo you have a girlfriend, Trowa?"
"." Trowa glances at Shimi then sits up staring on the couch. She had brought him out of his thoughts. Something about Fox and Sophia didn't add up. For some reason, he couldn't put his finger on it. It was like someone up a blockade and he had trouble getting over it. "Hum?"
"Girlfriend."
"No"
Yes!! Ok, time to work your charm. She moves closer to him. "Do you consider yourself a good kisser, Trowa?" He didn't know what to say. Ho one has ever asked him such a question in his life. He's in complete shock, but he doesn't show it. Something in her eyes told him she already knew, but he didn't know how. It felt like they could read each other's thoughts by just looking at each other. There was something abnormal about her eyes. At the same time, they were extremely beautiful something he never really noticed before. Suddenly, he felt uneasy which was very new for him.
"Don't you ever smile, Trowa, just a little?" Shimi changes to a relaxed sexy voice as she moves closer. "Come on, I know you can talk." He pretends to have more of an interest in what Niko and Duo were doing. Like a cat, she climbs on top of him until they were face to face. "Let's just see how good a kisser you really are, Trowa."
His heart pounds faster then he had ever felt it pound before. He pushes her away as her stands up. This only makes Shimi more ravenous. She wraps her arms around his neck and kisses him after flattening her body on his.
His eyes grow a bit in surprise then he finally manages to get lose of her grip and staggers to his feet beside the couch. Another smile forms on her face. Trowa could feel himself blushing then realizes Heero had walked in on the whole thing. Shimi walks up to him again and starts to play with the lock of hair that draped over his both eyes from embarrassment. He takes a step back onto the wall.
"I knew you were a good kisser, Trowa." Her voice came out as soft as butter. She turns away from him and exits the room.
*****
She finally stops at the oasis that she and Quatre had met so often before. Laying him under a tree closest to the water, she takes out a handkerchief then soaks it in the water. Walking back, she wipes his face then stops the tip of his ear from bleeding. He'll be safe here until they find him. She watches his chest rise and descends slowly. Why don't I want to leave? ... He's going to wake up soon anyway. I better go.
She intertwines her finger of her left hand with his right instead of leaving. She looks at then noticing how slightly bigger and smoother his hands were to hers. Satisfied she lets go of his hand and takes a gun from her pocket. This way is best I believe. She takes the gun and put it to her head. Quatre tackles her as she pulls the trigger.
There's a moment of silence. Sophia's eyes focus on Quatre's worried eyes. She could feel blood drip down her forehead. Only a flesh wound. Sophia pushes him off. Upon seeing the gun, they both race for it. They both grab the gun at the same time. "LET GO!!"
"Killing yourself isn't the answer, Sophia!"
She manages to snatch it from him, but he grabs her wrist then pins her down. "Why do you care?!"
"Because Wufei and Shimi will be broken hearted if he found out you kill yourself and. so would." He stops himself before he could finish blushing. He lifts her into the sitting position. "So would . I, Sophia."
She looks at him stunned. He pulls her into a hugs. She pulls free again, but this time not as rough. He can't mean it. besides I can't get him involved any more then he already is. Quatre quickly gets up and helps her up. Her face changes to serious. "I have to go." She hands him her gun and walks off.
"Wait" She turns giving one last look at him before running off when he started to follow. He starts to catch up when she disappears. He stops a moment looking in disbelief then continues moving. He soon hits something that sounded like metal. "What's this?"
Just then, he hears a familiar sound. A sound he hadn't heard since the Mariemaia incident, the sound of a mobil suit coming to life. Then, all at once he saw it like someone turning on a light in a dark garage. He stood at the thigh of the gundam. The suit was entirely black only because of the cloak it wore. At the same time the cloak seemed to be part of it like skin or hair would be to a person.
He climbs it when he sees the cockpit's still open. The gundam had sat up and sand continues to fall from it like multiple streams. He makes it to the cockpit as it starts to close. He's surprised to see nothing inside except a ring over head and the platform Sophia's standing on. It felt like walking into a small room.
Sophia sits cross-legged on the platform with her back turned to him. He notices her clothes have changed. It looked like a diver's suit, only deep purple and the neck and shoulders are exposed. On her shoulders is something that looks like blue shoulder pads with two antenna sticking out of each. "Rashid and the others are no doubt worried about you."
"But first tall me why you made gundams in times of peace, Sophia?" the cockpit door closes completely. It becomes black.
"There's no such thing as peace or at least in the way Ms. Relena is trying to achieve, Quatre. There's always some idiot trying to rule it all and Osprey and Black Zoë's no different." Several screens pop up bringing in light. "It's amazing what you can see when you take out the seat of the cockpit. You can even see what's behind you without much problem."
"You still haven't answered my question." Quatre says sternly. She turns around her face showing now.
"If I told you the real reason, you'd think I'm crazy." He looks at her confused. He then sits in front of her.
"I don't care about that. we can help you, but only if you let us." There's a long moment of silence before she continues. She reaches for her book bag in the corner and opens it.
"I have a feeling you guys won't believe me completely until you see it for yourself." She searches through it then takes out a folder. "Here" Quatre takes it, but before he could open it she places her hand on his stopping him. "I want you to open it when I leave because you'll only want to stay longer. Give this to Heero, ok, now go." Both stand up and the cockpit door opens.
"You have to promise you won't kill yourself." She smiles at him then promises. He takes a step outside. He turns to her and smiles. "This gundam's amazing. Next time we meet, I want to know everything about it and how it works. I just hope we don't have to use it."
"First, you scold me about making a gundam and then you compliment me on it." She blushes then gives him a strange look. "You're not normal are you?"
*****
Sophia gives a sigh of relief as she sees her house. Thank God, they didn't move the house. She steps out of the cab after paying the man. She bites her lower lip as the cab drives away. Something tells me I should have walked instead of using a cab.
She walks slowly to the front door. She digs in her pocket for her keys. Great, I can't find my key. She turns and goes to the greenhouse that's attached to the house. When she realizes that the door is also locked she slams her head on the bullet proof glass. Someone really hates me. Taking out a screwdriver she takes the hinges off the door and calmly walks in.
After putting everything back in place, she heads for the back door. The five scientist stand as she enters the kitchen. "Sophia, you're back." S notices she looks a bit down. A look of concern crosses his face.
"And how long did it finally take you to get home?"
Sophia looks wearily at her uncle, but her thoughts were somewhere else. I shouldn't have given Quatre that, but that was the only way to get them off my back. right.
"What's the matter, Sophia?" O walks over to her as she sinks to the floor.
"I can't stay very long." There's a pause as the others are soon all around her. O puts a hand on her shoulder giving her a look of sympathy. "And Shimi. wants to recruit five new people."
"Five new people" He says in surprise.
"Yes and these guys aren't normal. There all a pain in the butt."
"They can't be giving you that much trouble."
"You should know. you're the ones who trained them." Her voice was full of worry instead of anger which she tries to portray.
"One more thing Sophia" Some of the worry escapes her face. She stands up and dusts herself off. "You did bring Shadowschythe with you right." She glances at G.
"He can take care of himself. If he gets curious and moves around and someone finds him, he knows what to do." She walks past him.
"Sophia, I do wish you wouldn't refer to your gundams as though they were people." She turns around looking at each of them annoyed.
"Not this again. Come on H, I'm not crazy. If you would see some of the things they do you'd understand. I did give them AI after all" They all give her strange looks. ".besides a lot of people talk to their cars. I see no difference here."
"Do you need to sit down, sweet heart?" J says. They all start to say words of concern. This makes her angry.
"CUT IT OUT!!! I'M NOT CRAZY!!!" her sudden outburst makes them stop. Her eyes flicker blue a moment then return to normal. She suddenly holds her head. "I'm, I'm sorry. I'm having trouble controlling an anger problem I've seemed to have inherited over this short period of time." She turns away and heads toward the room she missed. They watch her as she softly closes the door behind her.
"Something's bothering her." S starts for her door and knocks not going in. "Sophia, are you hungry? We can get you something and we can talk." There's a long pause. He knocks on the door again. The others soon meet at the door with S.
There's the sound of exploding glass instead of the reply he wanted. Startled he opens the door quickly as more glass erupts into shards and rain down to the floor. The others follow him inside in time to see the mirror shatter. Sophia was waving around an ax like a baseball bat smashing things. Anything that was glass in the room was or was on the verge of being broken.
"Sophia stops; what are you doing?" at first she didn't seem to hear her uncle's pleading. She stops and looks at him as though she'd just saw him for the first time in her life. Her eyes are an angrily blazing blue.
After a moment, her face changes from anger to sorrow. She falls to her knees G takes the ax from her then J shakes her a bit. "Sophia what's wrong with you. Did something happen to you?"
She burst into tears startling them and worrying them more. They circle her like a blanket. Her uncle sits behind her. "Li. he killed them all. He's the leader of Osprey."
They all finally understand and recall that Li was recruited by Sophia when she was younger as a trainee. That's when a wave of death began to infect the team members one by one. Soon after however Li left the team after he was adopted saying he wanted a regular life. He had the responsibility to take on the family business.
O pulls her into a hug. "I know what your thinking and it's not your fault."
"How can you say that? I let him come in and destroy everything he got his grubby little hands on." She closes her eyes. Letting out a gasp she looks to the floor. "I feel like I don't know who I am anymore." She whispers in a small, harsh, airy voice. "I've probably led Quatre and the others into a death trap giving them the location of one of Osprey's bases."
"You sent them on a mission?" H says to her confounded. Sophia shakes her head you yes. Her bangs hide her eyes. "And you feel guilty about that, Sophia."
"Yes. I do." But I don't know why. I promised myself I wouldn't care anymore. There's a long pause. They scoot closer to Sophia.
"If you sent them on a mission, why won't you let them join?" S gives her a curious look. The one that meant he wanted a well thought out explanation and it had to be good.
"I don't want anymore blood then what has to be shed in this behind the screens war. I need no more blood on my hands, that's why I left Shimi with them." She pulls free from her uncle and warily stands. She looks up at S's face to catch his impression. He didn't give a clear appearance of what he was thinking. "Might as well finish Desert Storm"
"I bet you're tired after your long trip ." J helps her to her bed. "Get some rest, Sophia, and then you can finish the work that needs to be done on your gundams."
"I was just waving around an ax like a mad woman wasn't I?"
"Yes, I believe it's safe to say that" H says to her as the other three scientists start to clean up the glass. Sophia rests her head on her pillow.
"Maybe I have gone a little crazy, I guess." She scoffs a little as H sits on the bed next to her.
